Reading Schedule Planner
Split a reading assignment across the days until it is due — with a day-by-day schedule.
Enter a start date and a due date to spread the reading across the days you have.
To pace a reading assignment, divide the pages still to read by the days you have and round up. A 300-page book due in 14 days means ⌈300 ÷ 14⌉ = 22 pages a day. Reading 22 pages daily, you finish in 14 days — right on the deadline, with no last-minute cramming.
How the reading schedule works
The planner turns a due date into a steady daily target instead of a wall of pages the night before. It counts the days between your start date and the due date — inclusive of the due date itself — then divides the pages you still have to read across them. Because you cannot read a fraction of a page toward a firm target, the result is always rounded up, so the pace is enough to finish on time. If you switch on “skip weekends,” Saturdays and Sundays are dropped from the count and the weekday pace rises to compensate. The day-by-day table then lays out exactly how many pages to read each day and your running total, with the final day carrying whatever remainder is left.
Pages remaining = total − already read. Available days are counted inclusively, excluding weekends when that option is on. The ⌈ ⌉ brackets mean round up.
Worked example: 300 pages in two weeks
Suppose a 300-page novel is due in 14 days and you have not started. Divide the pages by the days and round up to set the daily pace.
- 1 Find the pages remaining. Subtract pages already read from the total. Starting fresh on a 300-page book leaves 300 pages.
- 2 Count the days you have. Count from the start date to the due date inclusively. Today through the deadline two weeks away is 14 days.
- 3 Divide and round up. ⌈300 ÷ 14⌉ = ⌈21.4⌉ = 22 pages per day, so the pace is always enough to finish.
- 4 Drop weekends if you need to. Reading weekdays only leaves 10 days, raising the pace to ⌈300 ÷ 10⌉ = 30 pages a day.
- 5 Follow the daily schedule. Read the day’s pages and check your cumulative total; the last day takes the small remainder.
Typical reading speeds by material
Rough guides for planning. Dense or technical material is slower; adjust the pace to how carefully you must read.
| Material | Words per minute | Minutes per page* |
|---|---|---|
| Light fiction | 250–300 | ~1.5–2 min |
| General non-fiction | 200–250 | ~2–2.5 min |
| Textbook / study reading | 100–200 | ~2.5–5 min |
| Technical / academic paper | 50–100 | ~5–10 min |
Getting the most from your plan
A daily target only helps if it is realistic, so sanity-check the pace against the reference speeds above and how closely you need to read. A 22-page-a-day novel is comfortable; 22 pages of dense theory with note-taking is a much bigger ask. If the number looks too high, start earlier or trim the scope. The planner also shows when the pace lets you finish before the deadline, which is worth building in deliberately — a day or two of buffer absorbs a missed session or a harder-than-expected chapter without derailing the whole schedule. Rounding up guarantees you never fall behind by design, so the tiny surplus simply lands as a lighter final day.